Personality tests for the traits of those in marriage or relationship can be used to predict the plausibility of marital divorce and the likelihood of a breakup (Kinnunen & Pulkkinen, cited in Solomon & Jackson, 2014). Thus, the possibility of dissolution of a relationship actually increases when a person in it is neurotic or even open to new experiences. (Solomon & Jackson, 2014). These negative traits can lead to a breakdown of communication which will have a negative effect as well. While they are important, personality traits are just one of many influencing factors in the the quality and strength of a …show more content…
There is actually no exact found explanation for the cause of it; several theories have been suggested, but the ones that put an emphasis on the absence of a role model or the lack of a good one leads to the increased divorce rate (Guttman, 1999). It does stand to reason that children would learn this behavior from the examples of their parents as a sort of observational example for how they should act in a relationship. Lacking a role model at all means that children, who have a single parent, have no reference at all to try and help them in their